KOTLOSTROENE

HISTORICAL REVIEW

The boiler building in Bulgaria begins in 1920 when the Workshop "NAPREDAK - STEAM BOILER" has been established. In 1926 this cooperation workshop has been specialized in repairs of heating and industrial boilers. In the same time the workshop begins to produce smoke tube boilers (total heating surface up to 50 sq. m) firing coal.

In that year the "Piperkov & Zorna" company has been founded. Initially it has installed and maintained central heating systems. Later it has manufactured smoke tube boilers, too, but with larger heating surface - 100 sq. m.
After the nationalization of the Bulgarian industry in 1947 the two factories have been united into a State Boiler-building Plant named "Georgi KIRKOV". In 1950 there are built new workshops and an administration building. After its first reconstruction 1967-70 the production has been raised 10 times. In the second - 1978 the boiler enterprise has been enlarged to allow stack assembly of heating and industrial boilers for country and export demands.
During the period 1980-1985 a general reconstruction, modernization and enlargement of the plant have been made. There is built a new workshop in which there was installed a production line delivered by BABCOCK-Oberhausen, Germany for gas-tight tube membrane walls.
In this time the plant is direct subordinated to the Ministry of Industry.
In the period 01.01.1986 - 30.03.1989 the KIRKOV-plant has been integrated in the Economic Association 'Heavy Machine-Building'- Radomir.
In 1991 the plant Georgi KIRKOV has been reformed into "KOTLOSTROENE" Limited. With Order No. 17-240 dd. 23.10.1995 of the Bulgarian Ministry of Industry "KOTLOSTROENE" have been changed to EAD (State Joint Stoke Company). With the Order No. 5 dd. 17.09.1997 of the Court of Law in Sofia based on the Protocol No. 1 / 17.09.1997 from the General meeting of the shareholders, KOTLOSTROENE has been reorganized into Joint Stoke Company "KOTLOSTROENE".
Nowadays the company has over 82 % private shareholders. The main shareholder is the JS Holding 'ACTIONER FAVORITE'.
The JSC "KOTLOSTROENE" has 34 254 sq. m covered manufacturing area distributed into four workshops and storage areas of 15 324 sq. m;
The JSC "KOTLOSTROENE" has shipped its own production in 25 countries all over the world including: RUSSIA, China, Poland, Greece, Macedonia, Israel, Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Egypt, Sudan, Mongolia, Indonesia and others.